EDUCATION IN THEORY BY GILBERT H. JONES, A.M., PH.D. (JENA) THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED ΤΟ MY BELOVED FATHER WHOSE LOVE OF TRUTH, AND UNREMITTING SEARCH FOR IT, FIRST INSPIRED MY YOUNG LIFE AND LED ME TO LOVE STUDY FOREWORD Books on the subject of Education abound. And because of the relative as well as actual value of the subject whose principles they attempt to expound it is necessary that they abound. It is only by having access to the various view points as advanced by the various authors in their texts. that anything like a full understanding of the subject is to be gained. Again students of the subject of education come from every walk of life and prepare themselves for the work in varying degrees. While the author is not ready to assert that the field of education has more unprepared or partially prepared workers in it than other vocations, he knows it to be a fact that it has its full as well as relatively large quota of unprepared or partially prepared workers. For this reason books that would do the most good must be in thought, language, scope and manner of treatment so simple as to be easily within the reach of the less mature and more uninitiated of the group. Because of the slight acquaintance of these young students and workers with the nature and scope of the problems of this their basic science, in a treatise of this kind which is intended to be primary in the sense of introductory, it has been deemed both unnecessary and unwise to give many specific citations and quotations. Especially is this plan desirable since the text does not attempt to be argumentative or analytical but particularly descriptive and explanatory. It is the aim and hope of the author that this little effort to open the field of Education to the beginning and young student will be helpful to him in his struggle to solve the simpler problems of education. In particular does he desire that both the principles discussed and the statements made shall prove to be enlightening in themselves, and which is to him more important that they shall serve to inspire him and create within him a desire for a more advanced, complete and fundamental study of the subject of education |